Poolroom

The New York Times claimed that the shooting of a sailor by a Negro in a poolroom was the spark. ❋ Ann Hagedorn (2007)

The poolroom was a sideline to Mike’s bookmaking operation. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

He pushed the mug up on the dashboard and waved at the dark opening of the poolroom. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

Billy was in a hungover stupor from Friday night, and he must have slept in his clothes because they smelled of stale beer and I saw talcum powder from the poolroom on his sleeves. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

The tall man stepped back on the high sidewalk in his cowboy boots and went inside the darkness of the poolroom. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

Hack looked through the front glass into the dark interior of the poolroom straight ahead. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

Algren locates the city's heart in the "nobodies nobody knows"; he drags himself to his half-busted Underwood "For all the poolroom tigers in checkered caps who've never seen a cow." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Camp I was in before, they burned it out, the deputies an 'some of them poolroom fellas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unmasked by television and the Internet, these once-stealthy hustlers could no longer lure anyone into believing they were just passing through town, innocently looking to relax at the local poolroom. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In his home town of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Fisher devised the character in 1921 after he met a boxer, Pete Latzo, outside a poolroom. ❋ Zen Tiger (2009)

They were guys from the other poolroom, Turk and his fuckface friends, and one of the black guys started running but the other one stood there and glared, six white guys and a brown dog more or less surrounding him. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

Juju put the car in gear and drove the two blocks to the poolroom, parking away from the streetlight. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

“Did it tell you, this sense of yours, what happened in the poolroom in the middle of the night?” ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

In a corner of the poolroom a guy named Stevie hawked up a wad of pearly phlegm, called an oyster, and spat it down the neck of his Coke bottle. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

When he got back with the dog, two men were coming down the poolroom steps. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)